Stroke and Chronic Kidney Disease.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is strongly associated with the full spectrum of cerebrovascular disease including ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, small vessel disease, and vascular cognitive impairment. Shared conventional vascular risk factors such as age, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus may account for many of these associations, but novel renal-specific risk factors such as uraemia-related coagulopathy or endothelial dysfunction have also been proposed. In this chapter, we will explore the impact of CKD on stroke risk, mechanisms, and outcomes.

Successful slide tracheoplasty and partial atrioventricular septal defect repair following extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support.

A two-year-old boy with a background history of Down syndrome and partial atrioventricular septal defect presented with acute respiratory distress requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. He continued to deteriorate, despite ventilation; direct laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy, and computed tomography demonstrated severe long segment tracheal stenosis. He was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to stabilise his condition.